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More of that Good Old Idaho Limelight
Posted by | Posted in Goings On | Posted on August 27, 2009
You'll probably read about this on the national news, and you'll probably shake your head and think, "God, what a fucking backwater Idaho is." In our defense, only about 25% of the citizens of Idaho would have something like this cross their minds. I have nothing to base that statistic on besides 34 years of residency (Idaho native here), and while one in four is incredibly high, please keep in mind the other three of us aren't certifiably insane.
Idaho GOP Hopeful Jokes About "Obama Tags"
BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho Republican gubernatorial hopeful insists he was only joking when he said he'd buy a license to hunt President Barack Obama.
Rex Rammell, slated to run against incumbent C.L. "Butch" Otter in the May 2010 GOP primary, made the comment at a Republican rally Tuesday in Twin Falls where talk turned to the state's planned wolf hunt, for which hunters must purchase an $11.50 wolf tag.
When an audience member shouted about "Obama tags," Rammell responded, "The Obama tags? We'd buy some of those."
Rammell told The Associated Press Thursday he was just being sarcastic and sees no reason to apologize.
I sincerely hope the Secret Service does investigate this. It is 1000% inappropriate to say something like that about any human being, and heaven knows the GOP would have come off its collective rocker if a Democrat had been caught out saying something like that about George Dubya.
For the other three of us, I beg the forgiveness of all of you out there who are wondering what's in the water.
The Democrats never would have said that about Bush, but that's only because the Republicans have all the guns. Ha! Kidding!
But yeah, as a non-Christian, non-Republican living in Texas, I feel your pain. Not everyone in my state is a right-wing evangelical secessionist, but there ARE a lot of them here, and they're kind of loud, so it does seem that way sometimes.
You mean to say you have NEVER made a "They should be shot" or "They should be strung up" or similar comment? Maybe you haven't, I don't know. But I bet you at least thought it in your head:)
My issue with what was said is the forum in which he said it. Stupid. Really, really stupid.
A jokingly said comment like that in private? No big deal. Although anyone running for public office would be stupid to even say it in private.
I knew what this was going to be about when I read the subject in my feed reader.
I can't speak for the rest of the world, but I think most of us think of potatoes when we think of Idaho. (Computer nerds may still think Micron Computers.)
As Butch pointed out -- of course he was kidding ... how could he not have been? Idaho doesn't have the right to sell tags for game outside of Idaho.